Reduced Test Cases
If you are having trouble with something while building a webpage, the most helpful thing you can possibly do is start building a reduced test case. “Trouble” could be anything: the CSS isn’t doing what you think it should, the …
If you are having trouble with something while building a webpage, the most helpful thing you can possibly do is start building a reduced test case. “Trouble” could be anything: the CSS isn’t doing what you think it should, the …
Let’s specifically cover this subject. (rimshot!)
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to …
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… Have you ever seen a tabbed content area in a sidebar that was a little “jerky”? The jerkiness can be caused by a bunch of things, like the content in the tabbed areas are of different heights, or maybe the …
When you do an AJAX request on a website, the URL you request from needs to reside on the same domain as where the request was made from. This is a security restriction imposed by the browser. There is a …
There are over 600 blog posts on this site over the course of nearly 3 years. Some of them are… better than others. I think it is the responsible thing to do is try to keep that content current and …
Several big companies offer copies of jQuery hosted on their CDN’s (Content Delivery Network). Most notoriously Google, but also Microsoft and jQuery themselves. A lot of people swear by this since it saves bandwidth, downloads faster, and perhaps even stays …
Knowing how to position things where you want them is one of the most important tools in a web designer’s toolbox. Understanding page flow, understanding everything is a box, understanding floats, etc. Once the basics are learned, a common …
The Bay Area jQuery Conference was amazingly fun. I met TONS of great people who I’ve wanted to meet forever. It was kinda like a Bluegrass Festival in some ways. The sessions weren’t recorded so unfortunately you can’t check them …